The social media giant outlines plans to create an independent oversight board to provide guidelines around implementing a level of censorship on the platform.

Companies should implement social media training programmes to stop reputational risks posed by staff online, says privacyconsulting's Russell Nel.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Stanford University argue Facebook should make changes to aid democracy and free speech.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and Liberty were among companies subjected to major data breaches in 2018.

Twitter shares fell almost 7% after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers.

Silicon Valley tech giants are so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless changes in taste reduce their clout, says Tim Berners-Lee.

The company easily beats Wall Street's revenue and profit estimates by selling more ads even though it lost users after purging millions of fake accounts.

A new tool finds Philadelphia, Washington DC and Johannesburg are the most negative cities in the world.

Half of all records compromised in the first half of 2018 were from social media data breaches, says Gemalto.

Google will shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ after announcing data from up to 500 000 users may have been exposed to external developers.

The billionaire will step down as the company's chairman but will remain as its CEO.

Sceptics, who spent years promoting bets against Tesla, see an opportunity to renew pressure after the failure of CEO Elon Musk's plan to take it private.